Graduating without a graded degree due to marking boycott

Emily Smith, a final-year geography student at Durham University in England, never imagined her already heavily disrupted university experience could end like this. She won’t be graduating this summer because half her work remains unmarked owing to a national marking boycott by lecturers, writes Anna Fazackerley for The Guardian.

She refuses to attend the ‘completion ceremony’ Durham has offered her instead. Without an actual degree classification it seems like a “farce”. Like so many in this deeply unlucky cohort of students, she feels this is the last straw.

“I’m so fed up with everything now,” she told the Observer. “Every single stage of my education since A-levels has been overshadowed by factors out of my control.”
Full report on The Guardian site